List of works - David J. Topping

2008 High-Flow Experiment at Glen Canyon Dam Benefits Colorado River Resources in Grand Canyon National Park

An approach for modeling sediment budgets in supply-limited rivers

Application of sedimentary-structure interpretation to geoarchaeological investigations in the Colorado River Corridor, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

Application of wavelet analysis for monitoring the hydrologic effects of dam operation: Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona

Building Sandbars in the Grand Canyon

Colorado River sediment transport: 1. Natural sediment supply limitation and the influence of Glen Canyon Dam

Colorado River sediment transport: 2. Systematic Bed-elevation and grain-size effects of sand supply limitation

Computation and analysis of the instantaneous-discharge record for the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona : May 8, 1921, through September 30, 2000

scientific article published in 2003

Correction to “Quantifying the relative importance of flow regulation and grain size regulation of suspended sediment transport α and tracking changes in grain size of bed sediment β ”

scholarly article published in Water Resources Research

Design and maintenance of a network for collecting high-resolution suspended-sediment data at remote locations on rivers, with examples from the Colorado River

Design of a sediment-monitoring gaging network on ephemeral tributaries of the Colorado River in Glen, Marble, and Grand Canyons, Arizona

scientific article published in 2014

Erosion properties of cohesive sediments in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon

Evaluation of intake efficiencies and associated sediment-concentration errors in US D-77 bag-type and US D-96-type depth-integrating suspended-sediment samplers

scholarly article in Scientific Investigations Report, 2013

Extending the turbidity record: making additional use of continuous data from turbidity, acoustic-Doppler, and laser diffraction instruments and suspended-sediment samples in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon

scholarly article in Scientific Investigations Report, 2014

Field evaluation of the error arising from inadequate time averaging in the standard use of depth-integrating suspended-sediment samplers

article by David J. Topping et al published 2011 in Geological Survey Professional Paper

Geomorphic change and sediment transport during a small artificial flood in a transformed post-dam delta: The Colorado River delta, United States and Mexico

scientific article published in 2017

How many measurements are required to construct an accurate sand budget in a large river? Insights from analyses of signal and noise

scientific article published in 2018

Importance of measuring discharge and sediment transport in lesser tributaries when closing sediment budgets

Influence of a dam on fine-sediment storage in a canyon river

scholarly article

Is there enough sand? Evaluating the fate of Grand Canyon sandbars

Linkage between grain-size evolution and sediment depletion during Colorado River floods

scientific article

Linking morphodynamic response with sediment mass balance on the Colorado River in Marble Canyon: Issues of scale, geomorphic setting, and sampling design

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 118 no. 2, April 2013

Long-Term Evolution of Sand Transport Through a River Network: Relative Influences of a Dam Versus Natural Changes in Grain Size From Sand Waves

Long-term continuous acoustical suspended-sediment measurements in rivers - Theory, application, bias, and error

article

PyCHAM: CHemistry with Aerosol Microphysics in Python

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Quantifying the relative importance of flow regulation and grain size regulation of suspended sediment transport α and tracking changes in grain size of bed sediment β

Recent sediment studies refute Glen Canyon Dam Hypothesis

article

Research Furthers Conservation of Grand Canyon Sandbars

Scientific monitoring plan in support of the selected alternative of the Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan

scientific article published in 2017

Sediment Transport During Three Controlled-Flood Experiments on the Colorado River Downstream from Glen Canyon Dam, with Implications for Eddy-Sandbar Deposition in Grand Canyon National Park

scientific article published in 2010

Sediment supply versus local hydraulic controls on sediment transport and storage in a river with large sediment loads

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 121 no. 1, January 2016

Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Palisades, Lower Comanche, and Arroyo Grande areas of the Colorado River Corridor, Grand Canyon, Arizona

scholarly article by Amy E. Draut et al published 2005 in Scientific Investigations Report

Self‐Limitation of Sand Storage in a Bedrock‐Canyon River Arising From the Interaction of Flow and Grain Size

scientific article published in May 2021

Stage-Discharge Relations for the Colorado River in Glen, Marble, and Grand Canyons, Arizona, 1990-2005

scientific article published in 2007

Technical note: False low turbidity readings from optical probes during high suspended-sediment concentrations

Underwater Microscope for Measuring Spatial and Temporal Changes in Bed-Sediment Grain Size

scientific article published in 2006

Underwater microscope for measuring spatial and temporal changes in bed-sediment grain size

Update on Regulation of Sand Transport in the Colorado River by Changes in the Surface Grain Size of Eddy Sandbars over Multiyear Timescales

scholarly article in Scientific Investigations Report, 2008

List of works by David J. Topping